Kathmandu: (news pulse/monitoring desk) Nepal’s Health Ministry on Saturday registered its first death from the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Nepal’s local media, A 29-year-old woman died from the novel coronavirus, the health ministry said.
She gave birth on May 8 and applied to the hospital she had recently been discharged, and later tested positive for the virus, it added.
The hospital where the woman gave birth was then put under lockdown, and the village she lived in was quarantined, as part of measures to stem the spread of the disease in the country.
The total number of coronavirus cases in Nepal reached 281, while 36 patients have recovered in the country so far.
On May 6, the government extended the nationwide lockdown until May 18 and eased restrictions for commercial and farming activities.
Nepal went into lockdown on March 24, which was initially in effect until May 7.